... if the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and sp...iritual impulse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call it...self fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance--that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sexual activity, for women, has a history of vulnerability, in a way it simply does not have for men. The mother has to teach this... hidden text to her daughter. The mother's warnings, her attempts to halt sexual development in her daughter, are not so much signs of disapproval or envy, but of fear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as th...ough plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "d...oing nothing."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue.... Moreover this activity ...must occupy a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtue... of the best thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is there anything To be serious about beyond this otherness... That gets included in the most ordinary Forms of daily activity, changing everything Slightly and profoundly....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For universal love is as special an aspect as carnal love or any of the other kinds: all forms of mental and spiritual activity mu...st be practiced and encouraged equally if the whole affair is to prosper. There is no cutting corners where the life of the soul is concerned....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers h...imself to be part of an old and honorable tradition--of intellectual activity, of letters--and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »